19 July 2005, 11:07 PM

The Moviegoing Experience

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-07-19/film/3

To quote: His remarks were echoed by Jim Kozak, editor-in-chief of In Focus, the magazine of the National Association of Theater Owners. "When [patrons] get there early to get a really good seat, they like to have something to keep them busy, something to do besides talk to the person they came with."

I'm trying to decide what's worst about this statement: that he thinks people like the fact that movies start 15 minutes or more after they're supposed to; that he thinks people don't like to talk at the movies; or that he might actually be right...

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Movies
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18 July 2005, 11:07 PM

Cool...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4693193.stm

I'd like to see that, only, y'know, not in Britain. Oh well.

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Misc
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1 July 2005, 2:07 AM

Music associations

I've just been going through my collection of instrumental or non-English-or-French vocal music, assigning categories to all the songs. (I don't speak French well, but I know just enough that hearing occasional words will drive me nuts.)

Anyway...I had a point...oh yes. I'm fascinated that every single piece by the Canadian Brass makes me think of mid-1800s society. See, I used to watch the 1994 version of Little Women all the time, and the score is very heavy on brass. Took me a while to figure that out, though. It's rare that I have such strong associations, but I can't stand any brass except the highest quality--the thing I hated most about percussion was always sitting behind the trumpets.

Oh, and a capella with a wide range of voice parts will always be Church Music to me. I don't know why, as I never attended church and wasn't a great fan of spiritual works; I think it may have had something to do with the choice of music in all the choirs in which I sang.

So, the short version of this is, when I'm writing spiritual stories, or stories set in a world similar to mid-1800s Western society...the songs on the soundtrack are ALL GOING TO SOUND THE SAME. Hee.

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Writing
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